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Sun, 11 Nov 2018, 18:32 PM

Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By David Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 54th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Shane Westerfield                     800 Ulf Leanders                 
E4   ****WINNER****  0.034  5.446 271.30                     0.078  6.120 249.72
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Gordon    ) 0.024  5.481 270.43      (A Whiteley  ) 0.087  6.005 252.00
E2    (B Hough     ) 0.017  5.470 267.85      (J Lombardo  ) 0.067  5.383 272.50
E1    (H Wernhart  ) 0.046  5.526 267.85      (R Martin    ) 0.086  5.403 270.10
 Qualified:             #4  5.486 265.90                        #3  5.461 268.17

3:22 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 16 percent, barometer 28.90 inches, adjusted altitude 2,622 feet, track temperature 100 degrees.
Westerfield is in his eighteenth final round. He has a 9 win-8 Runner-up record.
Leanders is in his ninth final round with two prior wins and six runner ups.
Leanders' chances go to zero as the car shakes and spins off the line and he slows.
Westerfield was the TAFC Champion for this year and wrap up this season in style with all of the numbers and his best run of the weekend to take the easy win.

Shane Westerfield's incremental times: 60ft-0.933 sec., 330ft-2.455, 660ft-3.627/212.46 mph, 1,000ft-4.615.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink